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Momadic Influences on China. Mongolorization of China Institutional Racism Ignoring infrastructure for agriculture Change of marriage system Change of control of woman’s property Widow suicide Manchu impact on China Banning of prostitution The Role of Women under the Manchu Manchu women

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Widow suicides were not written up as examples of female virtue in Biographies of Women in early Chinese history.

The official histories from the Six Dynasties to the Tang dynasty included stories of women who endured hardship and committed suicide for righteous causes, such as resisting rape, but not widow suicides.

The Biographies of Women in the official Song history only included two suicides of widows following the death of their husbands.

The section in the Yuan history listed 48 with the suicides sometimes coerced by their superiors.

400 were listed in the Ming history -- selected from among more than 30,000 model women mentioned in the Ming shilu 实录(Veritable Records) as well as in the local gazetteers of the time.

Emperor Yongzheng (1728) of the Qing called for a stop to the use of death to avoid responsibilities.

He said that a widow had two important responsibilities -- caring for her husband’s parents and rearing her children or adopted heir.

After 1728, the pattern of suicide changed.

The reported number of suicide dropped.

Women committed suicide after she had fulfilled her responsibilities of caring for her parents-in-law and her children.

The widows who lived to serve the deceased husband’s parents and raise the heir would slash their faces with knives or cut off their fingertips to show their loyalty and that they are resisting remarriage.